In a message dated 26/02/2008 21:06:33 GMT Standard Time,
luketreescapes@xxxxxxxxxxx.com writes:
If you don't think that the proposals can be implemented without harming
important trees tell the client and if they continue then on their head be
it.
Isn't that what we do? I've done plenty of jobs where I've told the
developer to forget it. Well they're like jobs but you seldom seem to get a
fee out
of it....
I feel there's a difference between the sites round the country, by the
sound of things plenty of sites elsewhere just sound like non-starters by my
local standards. I'd've thought Simon in Bradford was pretty similar to
Sheffield
but maybe I'm wrong. I'm sure yours in the Lake District are very differnt
Luke, and London? Cheeses only knows.
I will say I seem to fairly regularly find myself in dispute with LA bods
who insist that rubbish trees are choice specimens and as I can't believe any
experienced Arb would make this judgement I'm forced to presume that their
arms
are being twisted. As I point out to clients fairly frequently, there's no
point in me telling a client a tree's rubbish when it its a nice specimen,
he'll only end up drawing plans based on the tree going and then having to
redesign. I'll end up not getting paid or worse, getting sued.
This stuff about the TCP not showing circles puzzles me; the TCP is to
inform the layout, it can't be any other shape until the layout is drawn....
After
you've got a layout you can show RPAs a different shape. I do believe that
some Planners are failing to understand the RPA's flexibility: I wrote a
summary of how it should work for a Planner the other week, I thought it was
perfectly lucid and clear. My girlfriend read it and said "good grief that's
a bit
convoluted." It became apparent that the Planner was still puzzled by it.
Ho hum.
Bill.
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